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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
121
Citations
43113
World Ranking
64
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2005 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Genetics/Molecular Biology and Cell Biology

Overview

Rainer Hedrich is affiliated with the University of Würzburg in Germany and specializes in the Agricultural and Biological Sciences, focusing predominantly on Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Physiology.

Their research covers a range of topics, including:

  • Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Light effects on plants

Among the recent papers associated with Hedrich's research are:

  • "Optogenetics for light control of biological systems," 2022, published in Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • "The calcium-permeable channel OSCA1.3 regulates plant stomatal immunity," 2020, Nature
  • "GABA signalling modulates stomatal opening to enhance plant water use efficiency and drought resilience," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Calcium dynamics during trap closure visualized in transgenic Venus flytrap," 2020, Nature Plants
  • "Genomes of the Venus Flytrap and Close Relatives Unveil the Roots of Plant Carnivory," 2020, Current Biology

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Hedrich include:

  • Sönke Scherzer
  • Shouguang Huang
  • Peter Ache
  • Dirk Becker
  • M. Rob G. Roelfsema

Key publication venues for their work encompass:

  • New Phytologist
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Biology
  • Journal of Experimental Botany
  • Nature Communications

Rainer Hedrich received recognition from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2005 for contributions in Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology.

Best Publications

  • Activity of guard cell anion channel SLAC1 is controlled by drought-stress signaling kinase-phosphatase pair.

    Dietmar Geiger;Sönke Scherzer;Patrick Mumm;Annette Stange

  • A unified nomenclature of NITRATE TRANSPORTER 1/PEPTIDE TRANSPORTER family members in plants

    Sophie Léran;Kranthi Varala;Jean Christophe Boyer;Maurizio Chiurazzi

  • Guard cell anion channel SLAC1 is regulated by CDPK protein kinases with distinct Ca2+ affinities

    D. Geiger;S. Scherzer;P. Mumm;I. Marten

  • In the light of stomatal opening: new insights into ‘the Watergate’

    M. Rob G. Roelfsema;Rainer Hedrich

  • Identification of a novel, multifunctional beta-defensin (human beta-defensin 3) with specific antimicrobial activity. Its interaction with plasma membranes of Xenopus oocytes and the induction of macrophage chemoattraction.

    José-Ramón García;Florian Jaumann;Sandra Schulz;Alexander Krause

  • Advances and current challenges in calcium signaling

    Jörg Kudla;Dirk Becker;Erwin Grill;Rainer Hedrich

  • The stomatal response to reduced relative humidity requires guard cell-autonomous ABA synthesis.

    Hubert Bauer;Peter Ache;Silke Lautner;Joerg Fromm

  • The Physiology of ION Channels and Electrogenic Pumps in Higher Plants

    R. Hedrich

  • The Chara Genome: Secondary Complexity and Implications for Plant Terrestrialization.

    Tomoaki Nishiyama;Hidetoshi Sakayama;Jan de Vries;Jan de Vries;Henrik Buschmann

  • An RLP23–SOBIR1–BAK1 complex mediates NLP-triggered immunity

    Isabell Albert;Hannah Böhm;Markus Albert;Christina E. Feiler

  • Ion channels in plants.

    Rainer Hedrich

  • proovread : large-scale high-accuracy PacBio correction through iterative short read consensus

    Thomas Hackl;Rainer Hedrich;Jörg Schultz;Frank Förster

  • NRT/PTR transporters are essential for translocation of glucosinolate defence compounds to seeds

    Hussam Hassan Nour-Eldin;Tonni Grube Andersen;Meike Burow;Svend Roesen Madsen

  • Optogenetics for light control of biological systems

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  • Perception of the Arabidopsis Danger Signal Peptide 1 Involves the Pattern Recognition Receptor AtPEPR1 and Its Close Homologue AtPEPR2

    Elzbieta Krol;Tobias Mentzel;Delphine Chinchilla;Thomas Boller

  • Cytoplasmic calcium regulates voltage-dependent ion channels in plant vacuoles

    R. Hedrich;E. Neher

  • Stomatal Closure by Fast Abscisic Acid Signaling Is Mediated by the Guard Cell Anion Channel SLAH3 and the Receptor RCAR1

    Dietmar Geiger;Tobias Maierhofer;Khaled A. S. AL-Rasheid;Sönke Scherzer

  • AtALMT12 represents an R-type anion channel required for stomatal movement in Arabidopsis guard cells.

    Stefan Meyer;Patrick Mumm;Dennis Imes;Anne Endler

  • GORK, a delayed outward rectifier expressed in guard cells of Arabidopsis thaliana, is a K+-selective, K+-sensing ion channel.

    Peter Ache;Dirk Becker;Natalya Ivashikina;Petra Dietrich

  • Ca2+ and nucleotide dependent regulation of voltage dependent anion channels in the plasma membrane of guard cells.

    R Hedrich;H Busch;K Raschke

  • Stretch-activated chloride, potassium, and calcium channels coexisting in plasma membranes of guard cells of Vicia faba L.

    Daniel J. Cosgrove;Rainer Hedrich

Frequent Co-Authors

Dirk Becker
Dirk Becker University of Würzburg
Peter Ache
Peter Ache University of Würzburg
Dietmar Geiger
Dietmar Geiger University of Würzburg
Irene Marten
Irene Marten University of Würzburg
M. Rob G. Roelfsema
M. Rob G. Roelfsema University of Würzburg
Khaled A. S. Al-Rasheid
Khaled A. S. Al-Rasheid King Saud University
Heinz Rennenberg
Heinz Rennenberg University of Freiburg
Norbert Sauer
Norbert Sauer University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Petra Dietrich
Petra Dietrich University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Ingo Dreyer
Ingo Dreyer University of Talca

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